Patch description
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This addresses four issues:

(1) usernames and passwords in urls with special characters are now
    decoded properly. i.e. http://foo%2C:bar@www.whatever.com/

(2) Basic Auth support has been added to HTTPS, like it was in HTTP.

(3) Version 1.92 sent the POSTed data, but did not deal with errors
    (HTTP responses other than 200) properly. HTTPS now behaves the
    same way HTTP does.

(4) made URL-checking beahve the same way with HTTPS as it does with
    HTTP (changed == to !=).